{"product_id":"summer-of-hate-isbn-9781584351139","title":"Summer of Hate","description":"\u003cb\u003eBaudrillard meets \u003ci\u003eBreaking Bad\u003c\/i\u003e in this stark and bleakly hilarious novel about a descent into an underclass world of born-again Christianity, self-help, and crack.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In his journal, Paul liked to make lists: What he ordered from Commissary (shaving cream, toothpaste, deodorant, the transistor radio he had for a week before the guards took it away). The books he picked off the cart (The Bible, Dean Koontz, Stephen King, Codependent No More.) What phone calls he made and received; also, Bible Study certificates, letters and cards, his workout routines and his moods (Anxious, Nervous, Trusting in God, but mostly Depressed). Paul has a record of every push-up he did while he was in prison but he cannot remember shit about what happened before his arrest.”\u003cbr\u003e—from\u003ci\u003e Summer of Hate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWaking up from the chilling high of a near-death sex game, Catt Dunlop travels to Albuquerque in 2005 to reinvest some windfall real-estate gains and reengage with something approximating “real life.” Aware that the critical discourse she has used to build her career as a visiting professor and art critic is really a cipher for something else, she hopes that buying and fixing slum buildings will bring her more closely in touch with American life than the essays she writes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Albuquerque, she becomes romantically involved with Paul Garcia, a recently sober ex-con who has just served sixteen months in state prison for defrauding Halliburton Industries, his former employer, of $873. Almost forty years old, Paul is highly intelligent but has only been out of New Mexico twice. He has no information. With Catt's help, he makes plans to attend UCLA, only to be arrested on a ten-year-old bench warrant en route.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaught in the nightmarish Byzantine world of the legal system, Catt and Paul's empathic attempts to save each other's lives seems doomed to dissolve.\u003ci\u003e Summer of Hate\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel about flawed reciprocity and American justice, recording recent events through the prism of a beleaguered romance. As lucid and trenchant as ever, Kraus in her newest novel reminds us that the writer can be a first responder of sorts when power becomes invisible, or merely banal. \u003c\/p\u003eFor readers tired of political art's worn-out strategies, \u003ci\u003eSummer of Hate\u003c\/i\u003e joins the rest of Kraus' bibliography in offering an engaging and razor-sharp alternative.—\u003cb\u003eMeagan Day\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFull-stop.net\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSummer of Hate\u003c\/i\u003e is original, intelligent, darkly humorous, emotionally honest, and it grips the reader with a relentless thriller-like force.\u003c\/p\u003e—\u003cb\u003eVictoria Patterson\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen writers like Kraus commit to a subjective stance—biographical or not—they become easy targets for critics quick to dismiss the work as indulgent, aggressive, or victimizing. \u003ci\u003eSummer of Hate\u003c\/i\u003e is commendable for not only taking up the mantle of sexualized female subjectivity, but for its narrative of exploration the real psychic underbelly of the elite art world: the experience of the disenfranchised and the incarcerated, and the limits of a social system that imposes ever greater disparities between classes.\u003c\/p\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBrooklyn Rail\u003c\/i\u003e—Chris Kraus is the author of four novels, including \u003ci\u003eI Love Dick \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSummer of Hate\u003c\/i\u003e; two books of art and cultural criticism; and most recently, \u003ci\u003eAfter Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography\u003c\/i\u003e. She received the College Art Association's Frank Jewett Mather Award in Art Criticism in 2008, and a Warhol Foundation Art Writing grant in 2011. She lives in Los Angeles.","brand":"Semiotext(e)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299988230373,"sku":"NP9781584351139","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781584351139.jpg?v=1767737517","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/summer-of-hate-isbn-9781584351139","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}